On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:35:59PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Greg, all,
>
> While platform_device.id is a u32, platform_device_add() handles "-1" as
> a special id value. This has potential for confusion and bugs. One such
> bug was reported to me by David Brownell:
>
> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/i2c/2007-September/001787.html
>
> And since then I've found two other drivers affected (uartlite and
> i2c-pxa).
>
> Could we at least make platform_device.id an int so as to clear up the
> confusion? I doubt that the id will ever be a large number anyway.
Sure, that's fine by me, feel free to send a patch.
thanks,
greg k-h
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